Freshman forward Issac Fotu was selected as the Big West Co-Freshman of the Year.
Fotu and the No. 5 seed Rainbow Warriors will take on No. 4 UC Irvine on Thursday at
approximately 5:30 p.m. HT in the Big West Tournament.

ISMAEL MA/ KA LEO O HAWAI‘I

Junior forward Shawna-Lei Kuehu was selected as the Big West Sixth Woman of the
Year. Kuehu and the Rainbow Wahine open the Big West Tournament on Wednesday at
3 p.m. HT against the lowest remaining seed.

Hawai’i yearns ticket to the Big Dance
JOEY R AMIREZ
Sports Editor
The good news: The Rainbow
Warrior basketball team is just three
victories away from making the 2013
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
The bad news: So are seven other
Big West teams. And there is only
room for one of them at the Big Dance.
Hawai‘i (17-13, 10-8 Big West) is
looking to capture the Big West Basketball Tournament title, but has a
tough road ahead as the No. 5 seed.
“You look at every matchup,
and there’s not one team – not
even the 1-8 matchup – where
you would say, ‘Oh, they’re gonna blow them out,’” head coach
Gib Arnold said. “ This is truly
a conference where everybody’s
pretty much bunched up right
there. The hottest team and the
team with a little bit of luck is
gonna come out ahead.”

THE OPPONENT

UH is anchored by a trio of
Big West award-winning Rainbow
Warriors. Junior forward Christian
Standhardinger was chosen to the
all-conference ﬁ rst team, while
senior center Vander Joaquim was
selected as an honorable mention.
Freshman forward Isaac Fotu was
named Co-Freshman of the Year.
“I’m very, very happy that I got
[the honor],” Standhardinger said.
“But now I just got to put that aside
and focus on the tournament and get
ready for the tournament. I wanna sit
down after the season and be happy
about all that stuff, but now I wanna
focus since the season is going on.”
The big men are also the
three highest-scoring players for
Hawai‘i, as they average 40 of
UH’s 74 points per game. UH will
need every basket that the three
can provide against its ﬁ rst round
matchup – UC Irvine.

The Anteaters (18-14, 11-7 BWC)
earned the fourth seed by winning six
of their ﬁnal seven games. They also
defeated UH 68-64 in Irvine on Jan. 9
but fell on O‘ahu 78-72 on Feb. 10.
“I’m not fearing anything
about Irvine, but I’m fearing to
lose,” Standhardinger said. “And
that’s good because that will
make me go very, very hard. I
already have the little butterflies
in my stomach already, and that’s
good cause I’m ready already.”
UCI had four players win ﬁve
Big West Awards this year: senior
guard Daman Starring (second team
all-conference), senior center Adam
Folker (honorable mention and
Hustle Player), freshman guard Alex
Young (Co-Freshman of the Year)
and sophomore center Will Davis II
(Defensive Player of the Year).
Continued on page 12

VICTORIA DUBROWSKIJ / KA LEO O HAWAI‘I

Junior forward Christian Standhardinger was the lone Rainbow
Warrior on the Big West First Team.

‘Bows gear up for Big West Tournament
JEREMY NIT TA
Associate Sports Editor
The regular season is over,
but for the Rainbow Wahine basketball team, the challenge is
just beginning.
The ‘Bows finished the year
with a 17-12 mark while going
12-7 in the Big West, which is
good for third place.
“Our goal at the start was to
make the tournament, and our
goal is to win the tournament,”
senior guard Monica DeAngelis
said. “We still have work to do,
and we’re not finished yet. This
is what we’ve been preparing for
during the preseason and regular season conference. This is
what it’s led us to.”

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Freshman guard Ashleigh Karaitiana was selected to the Big West AllFreshman team and on the Honorable
Mention team.

P R E PA R E D M I N D S E T
The
Rainbow
Wahine’s
third-place finish guarantees
them a first-round bye in the
tournament, having them play

the lowest remaining seed from
the first round. But high seeding isn’t affecting the way the
team progresses.
“We’re very confident, but
we’re just going to take things
one game at a time,” freshman
forward Ashleigh Karaitiana
said. “We can’t overlook any
team, so we have to just work
hard and get the job done.”
“We know that this is what
we’ve been working for the whole
season,” DeAngelis said. “We’ve
played all these teams twice, so
there’s not really going to be anything new that we haven’t seen before. So we’re just going to go out
there and play as hard as we can.”

THREE CONFERENCE WINS
Statistically, the Rainbow
Wahine has gotten the job done
on defense. They rank second in
the conference in overall defense
while also limiting their opponents’ shooting percentages, es-

pecially from long distance.
“We’ve come to the conclusion that we are not going to win
pretty games,” head coach Laura
Beeman said. “They’re going
to be ugly, but if it’s an ugly win
then we don’t care. We know it’s
a little ugly at times, especially at
the offensive end, but our defense
is our staple. So we’ll live on our
defense, get better on offense and
hopefully string three wins together at the conference tournament, which is our goal.
“ There have been so many
changes and transitions, and
good moments and bad mo ments,” Beeman said. “But the
good far out weigh the bad.
W hat ’s kept me focused and op timistic on days that it ’s gotten
really bad has been these young
ladies. They’ve had my back,
just as much as I’ve had their
back.” The team’s 17-12 record is
its best since the 2005 - 06 team
Continued on page 12

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No matter what academic programs students come from, everyone is affected by ongoing construction on campus. Here’s an
update on a few of these projects.

CAMPUS CENTER
The ﬁ rst major renovations to
the Campus Center began in summer 2008, and the second of three
phases continued this semester.
Phase two includes the establishment of a full-service Starbucks,
which opened on July 23, 2012,
and a recreation center, which is
slated to open in fall 2013.
Work completed on the proj ect this semester so far in cludes the water proof ing of
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at ion center mechanical room,
as well as the inst allat ion of
plumbing, chilled water lines,
f ire spr inkler lines and a ir condit ioning ducts.
The recreation center was
previously scheduled to open in
spring 2013, but unforeseen underground conditions and revisions to the water service design
caused delays. Old utility lines
required investigation before being removed or relocated.
Phase three will include additional renovations to the Campus
Center, including more areas for
student organizations to collaborate. This portion is projected to
be completed in spring 2015.

E DMO N D S O N H A L L
A groundbreaking ceremony
for the $15 million renovation
of Edmondson Hall was held on

Feb. 28, 2012. The project will
come full circle in the next few
months. Scheduled renovations,
which currently include installing ceilings, f looring, laborator y casework and telecom and
painting interior walls, are projected to be completed by July
26, 2013. The project is now 85
percent complete.
Upon completion, Edmondson Hall will become the new
home for the department of biology. It will also become the
center for life sciences research
and teaching along with Snyder
Hall, current home of the department of microbiology. The
building is named after Charles
Howard Edmondson, a former
zoology professor who was the
first director of the Waikīkī
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2009. Below-grade soil instability
caused the building to settle unevenly and become structurally
unsound – $12.5 million was allocated for its renovation.
The building was gutted but
retained the entire exterior facade
due to its historic signiﬁcance. The
perimeter footings with micropiles also needed to be stabilized
in order to rebuild the structure.
Micro-pile work on the perimeter
footings has been completed, and
the contractor is presently excavating the grade beam trenches and
the elevator pit that will go under
the basement slab. The project
is currently 12 percent complete,
with a projected contract completion date of December 2013.

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This six-story building will
be home to information and communications technology and
services that support modern
teaching, administration and research for all 10 UH campuses.
Construction costs about $7.4
million and was funded through
a combination of State General
Obligation Bonds and UH Revenue Bonds. The center is scheduled to open in fall 2013.
Construction work completed
on the ITS Center this semester
includes the installation of gypsum board sheathing, vapor barrier, metal wall panels and glass on
the building exterior as well as the
installation of ﬁ re sprinkler piping
and building rooﬁ ng. Mechanical
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Nishiyama stressed that everyone must learn to take action to protect future generations.
“Even when we stand alone, we
must speak up,” she said. “We need
to protect ourselves. It can happen
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nuclear disaster. For our children, we
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To aid these evacuees living
in Kyoto, Nishiyama founded the support group Minna no Te, which translates to “Everyone’s Hands.”
Since its inception, Minna
no Te has assisted refugees by
distributing monthly newsletters
that provide information about
upcoming events, delivering relief
supplies, inviting Fukushima children to visit Kyoto to play outdoors
without fear of radiation and connecting evacuees with family and
friends still residing in Fukushima
through a biannual bus service.
“It will take many years to restore these areas [affected by the
disasters], for victims to go back to
their ordinary lives. Minna no Te
will support them continuously
and motivate the public to show
concern for the evacuees and disaster areas,” Nishiyama said.

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Monday marked the second anniversary of the triple disaster that
devastated Japan. On March 11,
2011, an earthquake, tsunami and
nuclear crisis cast a dark shadow over
the Land of the Rising Sun, leaving almost 19,000 people dead or missing.
“In a moment, we lost what
belonged to us and our ancestors
– home, beautiful land, mountains,
river and the sea,” said survivor Yuko
Nishiyama from Fukushima, a prefecture that was contaminated by the
radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Nishiyama, who is also a famed
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activist, visited Hawai‘i this past
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Stage review: ‘Next to Normal’ at Mānoa Valley Theatre
K ARLEANNE M ATTHEWS
Senior Staff Writer
Think of the aspects that
typically make a musical hit:
lovable heroes and obvious villains; upbeat, catchy songs that
you can sing along with; a contrived, easily-solved crisis; and
a tidy ending that sends you
out of the theater with a smile
on your face and your toes
tapping. You won’t ﬁnd any of
those things in Mānoa Valley
Theatre’s production of “Next
to Normal,” and yet it’s one of
the best shows I’ve seen there.
“Next to Normal,” written by Brian Yorkey and Tom
Kitt, won the Pulitzer Prize for
Drama in 2010, only the eighth
musical to do so, and that fact
speaks to its depth and quality
of writing. It’s the story of a
family dealing with death, love
and mental illness, with each
character longing to connect
and regain a sense of normalcy that hasn’t truly existed.
Alison Aldcroft is impressive as Diana, a mother struggling to keep her depression
and hallucinations in check. Her
singing and acting are superb,
though her singing occasionally takes on a country twang

that seems a little out of place.
M. Wesley Watson, as the
father, Dan, best encapsulates
the tension between choosing genuine pain and loss over
false and superﬁcial happiness.
At ﬁrst, I thought Watson was
overacting and less believable
than the other cast members,
but soon it became clear that
the veneer was a shield Dan put
up for his family, not one Watson put up for the audience.
Musical excellence is a
common theme among the
cast members; the musical’s
writers are apparently no fans
of easy chords or unison singing, and the MVT’s actors
rise to the challenge individually and together.
The technical aspects of
MVT’s staging are less successful. The stark and minimal set hits the right balance
between visual interest and
adaptability, but attempts to
spice up the impact through
projections and a disjointed
lighting design that are distracting. In theory, using
projections as glimpses into
Diana’s mind and dramatic
changes in lighting to reﬂect
the show’s abrupt changes in
mood should have worked.

But in almost every case,
MVT would have been better
off relying on the formidable
talent of its cast to draw the
audience in.
The approach of the show
is nicely summed up in its ﬁnal
song: “Give me pain if that’s
what’s real/ it’s the price we
pay to feel.” “Next to Normal”
eschews feeling good in favor
of feeling human. The success of the musical is almost
dependent on a cast’s ability
to convey complex and often
rapidly changing emotions
while tackling difﬁcult music
– MVT’s cast does that, and
the result is both exhilarating
and poignant.

While the Hawaiian islands are one of the most
isolated places on earth,
we are not without our
neighbors in the Pacific.
Next month from April
4-6, representatives from
these Paciﬁc islands will
gather at the University of
Hawai‘i at Mānoa for the
“Waves of Change” conference to share ﬁndings related to climate change and its
many implications and discuss how these ﬁ ndings must
be addressed by the Paciﬁc
island community, Hawai‘i
and the rest of the world.
According to Tarcisius
Kabutaulaka,
associate
professor for the Center of
Paciﬁc Islands Studies and
the conference convener,
there are three objectives
to the conference: ﬁ rst, to
converse about the impacts
of climate change in the
Paciﬁc region; second, to
focus on the implications of
climate change-related migration within and out of the
region; and third, to work
with high school students,
connect them with leaders
and integrate these issues
into their curriculum.
“The conference will
feature the president of
[Kiribati],”
Kabutaulaka
elaborated. “[Kiribati] is
one of those countries affected a lot by climate
change, and the president
… Anote Tong, has been
quite vocal internationally.”
Tong, the keynote speaker, will be joined by other
policymakers, natural scientists, scholars and people
from affected areas during
the three-day conference.

ʻNOT JUST AN
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUEʼ
Kabutaulaka encouraged
student attendance at the conference, emphasizing the various facets of climate change
that can be looked into, no
matter what a student’s major
or area of interest.
“It’s not just an environmental issue – it’s a social issue, it’s a cultural issue, it’s
an economic issue, it’s a political issue [and] it’s a legal
issue,” Kabutaulaka said.

Climate change is
not just a Pacific island
issue, it’s a global
issue and an issue for
Hawai‘i.
He also stressed climate
change as a “Hawai‘i issue,”
citing that oftentimes, residents tend to think of Hawai‘i
only as an extension of the
United States while forgetting it is part of the Paciﬁc
community as well.
“It’s important that we,
students in particular, understand Hawai‘i’s relationship
with its neighbors,” he said.
“Climate change is not just a
Paciﬁc issue, it’s a global issue and an issue for Hawai‘i.
So students living and studying here, if they are to understand Hawai‘i, they need to
understand climate change
and its impact ...”

WAV E S O F C H A N G E
At the forefront of conversation among the Paciﬁc for over a
decade now, Kabutaulaka noted
that the severity of climate
changes’ effects may seem minimal in Hawai‘i – seen in eroding

coastlines – but in other places,
the impact is more noticeable.
Rising sea levels have made
the low-lying Carteret Islands,
for example, increasingly uninhabitable, and many people
have been relocated to the larger island of Bouganville.
In Tuvalu, drought brought
about by climate change forced
the island nation to have fresh
water shipped from New Zealand. As these areas become
unable to support life, their
residents are forced to migrate
away from them.
As these people migrate,
where they relocate is also affected. Kabutaulaka touched
upon the social, legal, and
cultural implications that
arise when a migrating community must seek refuge in a
host community.
“Take for instance,” he
said, “if people come to Hawa‘i.
It has implications in our ability
to provide services, our ability
to be able to accommodate the
inﬂux of a new population coming in. In some places this can
create conﬂicts and tensions
between host communities and
migrant communities.”
But despite the dauntingtasks at hands, Kabutaulaka
believes that people will ﬁnd solutions and means of adaptation.
“... We’re going to be sharing information about how
people are proactively and positively working to respond to climate change,” he said.

t
“Waves of Change: Climate
Change in the Pacific
Islands and Implications
for Hawai‘i” will be free
and open to the public.
Pre-registration runs through
March 22. To register, visit
hawaii.edu/cpis/2013conf/
registration.htm.

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It’s a man’s world, and women don’t help
CINDY HUYNH
Contributing Writer
It is always a sad day in history
when a woman has to hurt other
women to establish her position.
Three weeks ago, Marissa Mayer decreed that Yahoo employees
could no longer work from home.
Originally, when the pregnant 37
year-old was named CEO of Yahoo,
it was a cause for celebration for
women around the world, especially
working mothers. This was a woman
who had it all: a happy marriage, a
successful career and children. It
should have been the start of a new
era, but it was regression instead.
While certainly workers of both
sexes telecommute, the reality is
that the ability to work from home
is a godsend for working mothers, and Mayer’s actions should be
considered a betrayal to decades of
women’s rights progress.
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rations to do the same. Last week,
Best Buy announced that it is making changes to its ﬂexible work program for the 4,000 employees who
do not work in its stores.
According to Telework Research Network, about 2.8 million
employees – or just more than two
percent of the U.S. workforce as
of 2010 – telecommute a majority
of the time. This ﬁgure does not
include self-employed workers or
unpaid volunteers.

NO NEED TO BE A MAN
Yahoo has made several excuses
to defend its decision, stating that “it
builds company morale” and “creates a culture of innovation and collaboration.” In fact, Yahoo claimed
that 95 percent of employees were
optimistic about the company’s future and that this was a 32 percent
rise from the previous survey.
The decision to ban telecommuting is actually an attempt by
Mayer to establish her place in a
world dominated by males. When
coming into power, women are

scrutinized to a higher degree
than their male colleagues. In response, women like Mayer make
decisions that hurt other women
to prove that they are equals with
men and do not need special treatment. They do it to be considered
“one of the guys,” even if it harms
their own goals as women.
Mayer needs to reverse her
policy for many reasons. As an Internet-based corporation, if there
is any company that could work
with telecommuting, it should be
Yahoo. Even Bill Gates has disagreed with her decision, claiming that it “counters” Yahoo’s intention to innovate its image.
The main issue is that Mayer
doesn’t understand that telecommuting allows women to have a career
while taking care of their families.
How many women have lost or will
lose their jobs because of this rule,
and how many mothers will lose their
jobs as more companies follow this
reasoning? There is no way of telling
how this will play out, but it probably
won’t end well for the average worker.

For the past decade, the gross
domestic product of China has increased by an average of eight percent per annum and is expected
to carry over to 2014, which is an
economic boom. While the United
States’ unemployment rate was
standing at nearly 10 percent in
2010, China was experiencing a rate
of only 4.6 percent and expecting
that rate to drop to four percent by
the end of 2012. Although the United
States considers a ﬁve percent unemployment rate to be full employment, taking into consideration frictional and structural unemployment,
China is still outplaying the U.S. in
regards to economic growth.
The fact of the matter is that the
U.S. economy is underperforming,
and although it is showing improve-

ment, progress is sluggish. U.S.
involvement in Taiwan, although
aimed at securing ﬁnancial interests abroad and increasing economic performance, may actually
be placing a dangerous strain in its
relationship with China.

BUILDING TENSIONS
At a lecture held at the East
West Center a few weeks ago, former Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy
discussed the strategic challenges
in the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan and
the noticeable increase in Chinese
aggression in Southeast Asia.
Roy explained that the reason
for growing arms sales to Taiwan
involves two key components: The
ﬁrst is that “we have wanted to create maximum disincentive for a nonpeaceful solution, and we do that by
continuing to sell arms to Taiwan,”
which translates to an armed Tai-

wan government with less Chinese
inﬂuence on Taiwan’s trade agreements, and the second component
is to promote incentives for peaceful
solutions. It is not the objective of the
U.S. to make Taiwan strong enough
to break away from China completely,
but to obstruct China from affecting
trade relations between Taiwan and
the U.S. Unfortunately, this is not
how the Chinese view these tactics.

C H I N AʼS P E R S P E C T I V E
During the lecture, Roy noted that China sees such tactics
by the U.S. as an attempt to contain a growing Chinese economy, while China sees the U.S. as
a declining power that is losing
more of its global inf luence.
With such a view in mind, the ambassador noted that the U.S. should
increase military presence in Southeast Asia to show that it is neither a

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At the end of his Southeast Asia trip last year, President Barack Obama met
with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
declining nor weakening power. It is
extremely dangerous to allow China
to carry such a perspective because
its aggression in Southeast Asia may
continue to increase, which will directly affect U.S. allies in the region.
The world has experienced
too many global wars to allow the
misperceptions of leaders to cause

new tensions and the possibility of
another war. It is not only a domestic
responsibility for China and the U.S.
to demonstrate a peaceful resolution,
but also an international responsibility: They should show the world that
cooperation and peace are above all
other matters, including a higher
GDP or better economy.

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“They’re [Hawai‘i] a talented
team,” UC Irvine head coach Russell
Turner said. “They’re a good team,
and we respect them. Their size is
a factor, clearly. But as Gib said, he
felt like they matched up well with
us. I feel the same thing. I thinks it’s
gonna be a really ﬁne matchup. It’s
gonna be a good college basketball
game when we play.”
However, one place where the
teams do not match up is location.
The tournament will be held at the
Honda Center, which is 15 miles from
UCI and more than 2,000 from UH.
“The game here was really close,
and Hawai‘i’s good,” Turner said.
“This is a different kind of road trip
too. … I don’t think there’s an advantage either way. I know Hawai‘i’s fans
are outstanding and will likely travel.
I’ve seen Hawai‘i’s volleyball team
play here at Irvine, and it seemed like

they had as many people as we had. I
think that they’ll have great support,
I think we’ll have good support from
the Irvine folks and I expect it to be a
good matchup in a neutral place. Either team can win.”

went 18 -10, but that team lost in
the first round of the Western
Athletic Conference tournament. This year’s squad is determined not to suffer the same fate
in the Big West.
“ We’re really pumped for this
tournament,” senior center Stephanie Ricketts said. “We’ve been
talking about this tournament
since before I can even remember.
The way I think about it, all during the preseason we had tournaments. And they were ﬁ lled with
tough teams, and we weren’t able
to win any of them. We want to win
a tournament, and we know that
we can win this one.”
“We’re going to go into that
game the way we always do,” junior guard Kanisha Bello said.
“We’re going to be prepared, and
I know we’re going to come out
on top. There’s no way I’m going
to end my career on a loss.”